Brain Training For Success – Lesson 1.8 – Eliminate Your Fear Of Failure And Soar To Greater Success

Welcome to Lesson #8 of the Brain Training for Success course!

You have some understanding of ways in which you sabotage your efforts. When you’re uncomfortable with the idea of being successful, you’re getting in your own way.

That discomfort is the result of fear. The most common fear in those that want to be more successful is the fear of failure.

Fear of failure can alter every choice we make. This fear can be helpful. Some of us are able to use the fear of failure as motivation to do our best work.

However, most of us are influenced by this fear in a negative way. We often change our plans altogether and find an alternative that feels safer. This is a sure way to limit your results and experience feelings of regret.

It’s time to put the fear of failure behind you.

Understand That Failure Is Part Of The Process

You’re very lucky if you figure out the right way to do something with your first effort. Short-term failure is much more common.

The thing is, any time you want to accomplish something significant, you can expect failures to be part of the process.

That’s why you must keep improving your process until you’re successful.

Realize That Failure Is Only A Temporary Condition

A single failure isn’t a permanent condition.

Failure is like a rainy day – and sunny days always show up again.

Find Something Meaningful

With enough motivation, fear isn’t an issue.

For example, if you’re feeling overly bashful at work, maybe you aren’t working in the right field or with the right company for you.

When you have enough passion for something, fear is much easier to overcome.

Failure Isn’t Personal

Failing only means that your approach wasn’t the best option – it doesn’t say anything about you as a person.

Even the most talented people deal with failure on a regular basis.

A wrong choice isn’t indicative of a fatal flaw.

Stay Present

You can’t worry if your mind isn’t living in the future. It’s only when you project a negative outcome that you become anxious.

Reality is happening right now, and the future is only a daydream. If you’re going to think about the future, imagine success.

At this very second, you’re okay. You’ll be okay in the next second, too.

Learn To Enjoy Fear

If your life isn’t in danger, being afraid is a sign that you’re doing something new.

Only new behaviors will change your life. No one wants to live the same day repeatedly.

That uncomfortable feeling is a sign that something amazing might happen.

Minimize Fear By Taking Action

The people that are most afraid tend to be the most paralyzed, but they didn’t start out that way.

You weren’t born afraid of the things that you fear today.

But by giving in to fear, you teach your brain that fear is an effective way to control your behavior. It will continue ratcheting up the fear because it knows it works.

Ignoring fear and taking action has the opposite effect. You can teach yourself that fear doesn’t impact your behavior.

In time, the amount of fear you feel will decrease.

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